Position 1: Rebuttal
The policy of self determination espoused by the Bolsheviks for instrumental purposes has been mentioned as engendering a permanence to ethnic diversities, consequently creating a bulwark against state dissolution. It is true that the exposure of capitalist relations does not necessarily negate nationalist tendencies which emerge in the context of economic decadence. However, the latter tendencies are utilised to prevent revolution necessarily by the propertied class and this creates a contradiction given the Soviet policy in the 1920s. However, it does not preclude the broader contradiction of capital itself. If we look at the category of the nation state as contingent against universal social relations synonymous with capitalism such as class then we can allude to the socialists adoption in the Labour party in the early 20th century of a religious interpretation applied to the industrial context of Britain as analogous and extrapolate a critique of position 1. Now th...
